This year's press photo of the year shows an injured, heavily pregnant woman lying on a stretcher and being carried by men along buildings destroyed by rocket strikes. The photo from Mariupol, which has already achieved great international fame, was taken during the first days of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and was awarded the prestigious prize on Thursday.
Our fact check from 2022
We ourselves have already known this photo from the beginning, because the Russian embassy in Great Britain claimed in 2022 that a pregnant woman in Mariupol was only wearing bloody makeup and acting and that it was a fake . Here is a screenshot of the false claim from 2022 ( note: the tweet has now been deleted! )

When asked whether the members of the Azov Battalion had disguised themselves as pregnant women, the Russian Embassy replied in 2022 that the woman was actually pregnant, but that both women photographed were beauty bloggers:

The photo from Mariupol was taken by the photographer: Evgeniy Maloletka
According to the jury of the World Press Photo Competition, the Ukrainian photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, who captured the striking image for the Associated Press (AP) news agency after an attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, “captured the absurdity and horror of war “captured.
The tragic fate of pregnant Iryna Kalinina (32) ended with the stillbirth of her child, which she named Miron - derived from the Ukrainian word for peace. Just half an hour later, Kalinina herself died. The jury declared that the photo symbolized the “murder of future generations of Ukrainians” and impressively documented “the war crimes committed by Russian troops against Ukrainian civilians.”
Jury comment
The jury felt that this image captures the absurdity and horror of war. It is an accurate representation of the year's events and evidence of the war crimes being committed against Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces. The image rises as a deeply painful historical fact and highlights the murder of future generations of Ukrainians. By giving the image a platform, the jury hopes that the world will stop and acknowledge the intolerable realities of this war and consider the future of Ukraine.
Maloletka and an AP video colleague arrived in Mariupol just an hour before the Russian invasion began and spent 20 days in the city documenting the effects of the Russian attacks. The award-winning photo is “the picture I want to forget. But I can’t,” Maloletka said in a video released by the jury. He hopes his work will help “people understand” and that the photo may one day be used in a trial related to Russian war crimes in Ukraine.
Source: World Press Photo
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